Podcasting Free Music

Here's some recent follow-ups on Free Software and the Music Commons:

Flavio Oliveira got in touch and is keen to help add podcast support to RhythmBox, and help with the whole free software / free music mix. The free software desktop should be an awesome portal to free media, out of the box. Let's make it happen!

Over on linux-audio-user, John Mulholland is setting up opensourcemusic.info, a community site for musicians using Linux. He was at the recent musiccommons symposium in Brighton, and we've been chatting about bridging the gap:

I go to the newsagent and I see five magazines for open source, and five for making music on a computer, and not one that combines the two!

Shayne O'Connor (who happens to also live near Sydney :-) runs machinehasnoagenda, an awesome Free Media site. He's keen to host music made with Linux, if it's tagged properly:

Everyone on LAU should get themselves hip to tagging their music as CC-enabled, it should go without saying.

He also suggests a feed on CommonTunes. There's some great music on these sites, go listen.

Another awesome way to expose the Free Software community to Free Media is through news shows like LugRadio. Free shows can use free sound effects and play free tunes. James Purser is keen to do podcasts for Linux Australia and recently made a pilot [4.0MB Ogg Vorbis]. Check it out, I look forward to his suggested activities for DebSIG. He's looking for people in each state to help put shows together, so, SLUGgers and others, pipe up ;-)